Habeas Corpus is the backbone of our constitutional system. There is no right that is more fundamental to civil rights and civil liberties. We now live in a country where the president can declare anyone an unlawful enemy combatant–even me, even your grandmother–and put that person out of reach of any ability to challenge that. There is no conceivable justification for that. Congress must redress the wrongs it committed in the Military Commissions Act.

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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